Global City

• an urban city that enjoys significant competitive advantages and that serves as a hub within a globalized economic system.

  Global City
• She popularized the term "global city"

  Saskia Sassen
• 3 global cities which are hubs of global finance and capitalism.

  New York, London, Tokyo
• Nikkei


  Tokyo
• FTSE


  Financial Times Stock Exchange
• NYSE


  New York Stock Exchange
• can now rival New York's cultural influence

  Los Angeles
• home of the most powerful internet companies 


  San Francisco
• country that has the largest stock market

  New York
• houses the greatest number of corporate


  Tokyo
• manufacturing center of the world

  China
• Indicators for Globality

  Economic Power, Center of Authority, Centers for Higher Learning and Culture
• center of American film industry

  Los Angeles
• culinary capital the world

  Copenhagen, Denmark
• known for its post-punk and New Wave bands like Joy Division, the Smiths, the Happy Mondays


  Manchester, England
• cultural hub of Southeast Asia


  Singapore
• Urban areas consume the most of world's energy. Cities only cover 2% of the world's landmass but consumes the 78% of

  global energy.